{"id":229714,"date":"2025-07-23T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229714\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:55:10","slug":"cowboys-micah-parsons-hints-at-departure-from-dallas-sooner-than-anyone-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229714\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Micah Parsons hints at departure from Dallas sooner than anyone expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Parsons has officially opened the door on an outcome nobody thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Parsons suggested this could be his final season with the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came amid contract negotiations between Parsons and Dallas as the star pass rusher enters the option year of his rookie deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Parsons is expected to get a record-setting amount on his new contract, which could range anywhere from four-to-six years and be in the $45 million per year ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-rookie-qb-shedeur-sanders-subject-second-draft\/cb9a0ed82ec1c845ee8ecee7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders could be subject to a &#039;second draft&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders could be subject to a &#8216;second draft&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the negotiations clearly aren&#8217;t going well, and Parsons delivered this one-liner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/news\/cowboys-micah-parsons-delivers-somber-contract-message-end\/8a024d562e4255e2fd918938\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to reporters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">to reporters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is the end, this is the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody had said words like that yet in the Parsons process. It seemed like a safe assumption to think that Dallas would do everything in its power to keep around the generational defender.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Parsons has suggested he could be in a different uniform after this season. And that&#8217;s something no Cowboys fan wants to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons has officially opened the door on an outcome nobody thought possible. Speaking with reporters on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[13813,230,229,257,2461,7,491,6,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-229714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-contract-negotiations","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-micah-parsons","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114902658394189125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}